Re: Newbie question: qutoes?

James Williams wrote: > rory walsh wrote: >> Can anyone tell me if there is a difference between double quotes and >> single quotes? Cheers, >> Rory. > > What's up Rory... actually there *is* a difference. Double quotes are > parsed by the php engine, meaning it goes through and finds variables > and stuff which it can parse, ex. print("Here is a variable: > $variable!"); will print "Here is a variable: The value of the variable!" > > Single quotes are not parsed by the php engine, so the same code with > single quotes (print('Here is a variable: $variable!'); will return > "Here is a variable: $variable!" I hope that answeres your question This is not quite 100% correct. PHP still parses single quotes, but only replaces two (2) special character combinations: \' turns into ' \\ turns into \ The point is that you still might want to embed an apostrophe in single quotes, and so you use \ for that, and you might want to embed \ so you use \ for that as well. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm